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The annual Cobra Gold military exercise will be held from Feb 20 to March 5, but in a reduced format and without observers from Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar to have own digital currency

Myanmar’s military government plans to establish a digital currency to support domestic payments and boost the economy within the year and is assessing how to move forward, according to a top spokesman of the State Administration Council.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi faces new charge amid fresh violence

New corruption charge announced as military forces reportedly burned down as many as 400 houses in northwest Sagaing region.

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Businesses say 90,000 migrant workers needed

Business operators have submitted to the Labour Ministry requests for about 90,000 migrant workers under terms of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar last December.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar military fails sovereignty test

After seizing power from an elected civilian government on Feb 1 last year, Myanmar's military junta under the State Administration Council (SAC) has fallen short of the four categories that constitute the definition of a sovereign state.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's Suu Kyi faces new bribery charge in string of cases - state TV

Myanmar's military government announced a new bribery charge against deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, the country's state broadcaster reported.

Reuters

Myanmar villagers army say troops burned 400 houses

Residents of two villages in northwestern Myanmar say government soldiers burned down hundreds of houses this week, apparently while searching for members of an armed militia opposed to military rule

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Myanmar’s UN envoy under fire for proposing ‘power share’ with military

Pro-democracy groups condemn Noeleen Heyzer’s comments in a TV interview, and maintain the junta is losing its grip

The Guardian - UK

Myanmar military barred from ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting

Regional bloc bars Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister from attending an upcoming meeting.

Al Jazeera

‘I can’t go home’: families hide in Myanmar’s forests as fighting rages

As the military targets civilians and blocks aid, those who have left home to avoid violence risk death finding food and healthcare

The Guardian - UK

Cambodia says non-political Myanmar rep invited to Asean meeting

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that a non-political representative from Myanmar had been invited to attend a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers later this month rather than the country's military-appointed foreign minister.

Bangkok Post

ASEAN to exclude Myanmar foreign minister from meeting, says Cambodia

Cambodia said on Thursday a non-political representative from Myanmar had been invited to attend a regional ministerial meeting later this month instead of the country's military-appointed foreign minister.

Reuters

One year since Myanmar coup, U.N. Security Council backs 'will of the people'

The U.N. Security Council said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned by a continuing state of emergency imposed by the military in Myanmar and pushed for talks to resolve the situation in line "with the will and interests of the people."

Reuters

UN calls for halt to Myanmar violence, return to democracy

The U.N. Security Council is calling for an immediate cessation of violence throughout Myanmar as the country’s military coup enters a second year

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Bangkok Post

Global Britain's Indo-Pacific tests

It is worth harking back to what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said when he was a foreign secretary: "We should have absolutely no shame or embarrassment in championing our ideals around the world and in this era of dithering and dubitation, this should be the message of Global Britain to…

ABC News

Ha Vu, wife of Australian economist Sean Turnell, marks one year since his arrest in Myanmar

As the anniversary of her husband's arrest nears, academic Ha Vu writes that she hopes he can return to his family in Australia as soon as possible.

Reuters

"We're not done" with sanctions on Myanmar junta and its supporters, says U.S. envoy

Washington will continue to impose sanctions on Myanmar's military and those who have helped the junta that seized power a year ago, U.S. State Department Counselor Derek Chollet said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Asean urges 'immediate' end to Myanmar violence

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged an "immediate" end to violence in Myanmar on Wednesday and for the junta to allow a special envoy tasked with facilitating talks to visit as soon as possible.

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Two killed, several injured in Myanmar explosions

At least two people were killed and several injured after multiple explosions hit several places in Myanmar, including Yangon, Bago, and Myitkyina, local media reported on Tuesday, said CGTN News.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ll keep reporting, whatever the risk from the junta,’ say Myanmar’s journalists

To avoid arrest, the staff of the 74 Media left their home city, only to face shellfire in their border refuge. The editor describes the risks faced by his media outlet

Asharq Al-Awsat

Myanmar Marks Coup Anniversary with Protests and Unrest

Streets in some of Myanmar's main cities were nearly deserted on Tuesday as opponents of military rule held "silent strikes", marking the first anniversary of a coup that led to deadly chaos and snuffed out tentative steps towards democracy. The United States, Britain and Canada imposed new sanctions on the…

Reuters

Myanmar shadow government drops objections to ICJ's Rohingya genocide case

Myanmar's shadow government, set up after last year's military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar coup: A year on, exiles speak of guilt and defiance

Myanmar activists and journalists now living abroad say their job is to tell the world of what is happening at home.

Bangkok Post

Serious crimes will be punished

One year ago, the elected government of Myanmar was deposed by military authorities.

France 24

Myanmar's deadly spiral: One year after coup, can civil war be avoided?

Is there no stopping all-out civil war in Myanmar? On the first anniversary of the coup that ended power sharing between Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and a military whose candidates had just been trounced in a general election, a silent strike took place to protest the…

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